I’ll be reading the full text of the satirical essay by Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal, written in the year 1729.

"For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick."

Find the full text of this essay here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm

And more info about Jonathan Swift here: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonathan-Swift

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